“When they get in trouble, they send for the sons-of-bitches” — James D. Hornfischer Copy Share Image
“You kill yourself when you hate. It's the worst disease in the world.” — William Schiff Copy Share Image
Goddamn it, you'll never get the Purple Heart hiding in a foxhole! Follow me! — Henry Pierson Crowe Copy Share Image
The hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“We were supposed to be heroes.” “There’s no such thing as heroes.” Conversation between ‘Alis K’ and ‘Borge’ The Informer by Steen… — Steen Langstrup Copy Share Image
“Agreed. We could set a trap for him. See if he goes for it.” “How would we do that?” Conversation between ‘Borge’… — Steen Langstrup Copy Share Image
“That’s war. It won’t let anyone get away unscathed. I’m sorry about Grete.” Verner aka ‘Jens’ in the novel 'the Informer' by… — Steen Langstrup Copy Share Image
I don't mean this to sound hyperbolic but there are increasingly, albeit really minor, similarities between now and how Germany was lulled… — David Cross Copy Share Image
“I've got one thing to say: I killed a lot of germans, and I'm only sorry I didn't kill more.” — Nancy Wake Copy Share Image
Dunkirk has fallen... with it has ended the greatest battle of world history. Soldiers! My confidence in you knew no bounds. You… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“Always there have been six ravens at the Tower. If the ravens fly away, the kingdom will fall.” — John Owen Theobald Copy Share Image
Fuehrer, we are on the march! Victorious Italian troops crossed the Greco-Albanian frontier at dawn today! — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
The Red Army and Navy and the whole Soviet people must fight for every inch of Soviet soil, fight to the last… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
“In 1935, a British engineer named Robert Watson Watt was asked whether it was possible that the Germans were developing a death… — Bill O'Neill Copy Share Image
“They say 'stone walls do not a prison make nor iron bars a cage'. It was a quotation I knew as a… — Denis Avey Copy Share Image
“It would be an idyllic tropical paradise if not for the malaria, the insects, the constant diarrhea and resulting hemorrhoids, and the… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“We had the air war overhead, which was frightening, but we were, in a way, getting used to it. Now, however, we… — Alfred Nestor Copy Share Image
I would have fought in WW2, so I wasn't a pacifist in the broader sense. I prefer to be a pacifist, but… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
“The fact is that many people did not – and still do not – understand that many Germans were held in the… — Alfred Nestor Copy Share Image
“He’s never going to confess, BB. Why don’t we just shoot him and go home? I’ve got an important appointment coming up.”… — Steen Langstrup Copy Share Image
“I quickly got used to being picked up by my mother, and taken to the air raid shelter near our home. Although… — Alfred Nestor Copy Share Image
“I remember seeing one elderly man look at us, and he held his hand out, and most frightening were his eyes, dark… — Alfred Nestor Copy Share Image
“The British air force desperately needed planes for their military, and the US had lots of planes but couldn’t sell them to… — Bill O'Neill Copy Share Image
“I do recall hearing a conversation in our home in Strausberg, between my mother and my father, where my mother sounded very… — Alfred Nestor Copy Share Image
“One woman, called Eva, used to visit my mother and sometimes we would call in next door to visit her. Sometimes Frau… — Alfred Nestor Copy Share Image
“Appeasement was a policy put in place by Neville Chamberlain, the British Prime Minister to try to avert war. His theory was… — Bill O'Neill Copy Share Image
“Children accept the conditions they are born into, and, to a degree, I was getting used to the bombings, fires, and death… — Alfred Nestor Copy Share Image
“He loved children and used to dandle me on his knee. This was how the title came about for this book, Uncle… — Alfred Nestor Copy Share Image
“All the nut eaters and food faddists I have ever known, died early after a long period of senile decay - Winston… — Stuart Finlay Copy Share Image
“The dangers of the sea should always take precedence over the violence of the enemy” — Ben Bryant Copy Share Image
“I didn't know then that the sweet life could be like honeysuckle smothering a barbed-wire fence.” — Anne Lovett Copy Share Image
